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The World Doesn't End (1989) is a collection of prose poems by Charles ... Each poem is indicated in the collection's table of contents by the first several words of ...
Born in New York, Carryl became a second-generation successful businessman; and a stockbroker, who for 34 years starting in 1874 held a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. In 1869 he married Mary Wetmore. Their elder child was the poet and humorist Guy Wetmore Carryl. In 1882 Charles E. Carryl published his first work: Stock Exchange Primer. [1]
Charles Edwin Johnson (June 15, 1936 – January 7, 2024) was an American civil servant. He had served as Acting United States Secretary of Health and Human Services from January to April 2009 during the Obama presidency. [1] [2] Johnson was appointed by then President George W. Bush in
They developed a large circle of literary friends and contacts; in particular, painters and life partners Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon, near whom they settled in Richmond, London. [5] Robert Browning was a close friend of theirs — if also the source of their leaked identity — as well as Rudyard Kipling .
The poem, originally titled A Visit or A Visit From St. Nicholas, was first published anonymously on Dec. 23, 1823, in a Troy, New York newspaper called The Sentinel.
One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name." For many years, the poem was incorrectly attributed to Mordaunt's contemporary, Sir Walter Scott. Scott had merely quoted a stanza of the poem at the beginning of Chapter 34 (Chapter XIII of Volume II) of his novel Old Mortality. [16]
Audio recording (.mp3) of Charles Simic reading at the Key West Literary Seminar, 2003 "Seven Prose Poems" by Charles Simic in The Cafe Irreal Issue 13, February 1, 2005; Simic reading from a collection of his own works (Audio, 14 mins) Video of Charles Simic reading at Boston University's Robert Lowell Memorial Lecture, 2009 (60 mins)
Lucas's Quaker background led to a commission from the Society of Friends for a biography of Bernard Barton, the Quaker poet and friend of Charles Lamb.The success of the book was followed by further commissions from leading publishers; the most important of these commissions was a new edition of Lamb's works, which eventually amounted to seven volumes, with an associated biography, all ...